Problem: Numeric is of different length could be 1, 200, 1000, 39 99995 etc. And need to replace with a text eg. "Apple" which is of different lenth comapring to the numeric values.
let str: String = "hello i have 1313 object of 10 string class with 1 object, similar to 9999 errors"
Expected Result = "hello i have Apple object of Apple string class with Apple object, similar to Apple errors"
I have tried with below code:
var originalString: String = "hello i have 1313 object of 10 string class with 1 object, similar to 9999 errors"
let strippedString: NSMutableString = NSMutableString(capacity: originalString.characters.count)
var numArray: [String] = []
var locArray: [NSNumber] = []
var scanner: NSScanner = NSScanner(string:originalString)
let numbers: NSCharacterSet = NSCharacterSet(charactersInString: "0123456789")
while scanner.atEnd == false {
var buffer: NSString?
if scanner.scanCharactersFromSet(numbers, intoString: &buffer) {
strippedString.appendString(buffer! as String)
numArray.append(buffer! as String)
locArray.append(scanner.scanLocation)
}
else {
scanner.scanLocation = (scanner.scanLocation + 1)
}
}
for (index, _) in numArray.enumerate() {
var loc : Int = Int(locArray[index] ) - (String(numArray[index]).characters.count)
let len = String(numArray[index]).characters.count
let dupStr = "Apple"
if(index != 0 && len != dupStr.characters.count)
{
loc = loc + (dupStr.characters.count - len) + 1
}
originalString.replaceRange(originalString.startIndex.advancedBy(loc)..<originalString.startIndex.advancedBy(loc + len), with: dupStr)
}
print(originalString)
Swift 2
NSScanner is great, but if you want a simpler solution for this task, you could use componentsSeparatedByString
, map
, Int()
and joinWithSeparator
, like this:
let originalString = "hello i have 1313 object of 10 string class with 1 object, similar to 9999 errors"
let tokens = originalString.componentsSeparatedByString(" ")
let newTokens = tokens.map { (token) -> String in
if let _ = Int(token) {
return "Apple"
}
return token
}
let result = newTokens.joinWithSeparator(" ")
print(result)
Prints:
hello i have Apple object of Apple string class with Apple object, similar to Apple errors
There's also a short version for the mapping:
let newTokens = tokens.map { Int($0) != nil ? "Apple" : $0 }
Swift 3
componentsSeparatedByString(_:)
is now components(separatedBy:)
, and joinWithSeparator(_:)
is now joined(separator:)
.
let tokens = originalString.components(separatedBy: " ")
let newTokens = tokens.map { Int($0) != nil ? "Apple" : $0 }
let result = newTokens.joined(separator: " ")